Clothes-line holder.



R. KUMMER.

CLOTHES LINE HOLDER.

APPLICATION TILED SEPT. 15, 1908.

Patented July 13, 1909.

A TTORNEYS RICHARD KUMMER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTHES-LINE HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 13, 1909.

Application filed September 15, 1908. Serial No. 453,190.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD KUMMER, a citizen of the United States, andresiding at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes- LineHolders, of which the following is a specification, such as will enablethose skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

This invention relates to clothes line h0lders of the class designed tobe connected with a window frame and to serve as one support for anendless line which is passed around a pulley supported at apredetermined distance from the window, and the object thereof is toprovide a device of this class which may be swung inwardly through thewindow and so constructed as to permit of clothes or other articlesbeing suspended from the line and the line moved around on its supportswithout rendering it necessary for the operator to lean out of thewindow; a further object being to provide a device of the classspecified which will prevent the serious and sometimes fatal accidentsoccasioned by the manipulation of clothes lines supported in the mannerset out.

The invention is fully disclosed in the fol lowing specification, ofwhich the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate partsof my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters ineach of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a view showing one side of awindow frame and a cross section of the bottom of the frame, and showingmy improved clothes lines holder or support connected. with the side ofthe frame, Fig. 2 a view looking in the direction of the arrow .r ofFig. 1, and;Fig. 3 a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

In the drawing forming part of this specification, I have shown at a oneside of a window frame and at a a cross section of the bottom of saidframe, and the frame a is provided with the usual grooves a and o inwhich, in practice, the sashes are placed.

In the practice of my invention, I secure to the outer portion of thewindow frame and to the outer face thereof a plate I) provided with athreaded bolt if on which is placed a nut if. I also provide a plate awhich is secured to the window frame inwardly of the plate I), and whichfaces at right angles thereto, and said plate a is provided with ahorizontal U-shaped kee 7 er 0 which opens downn 'ardly, and the plhte cis also provided above the keeper with a hook c which, in the form ofconstruction shown, is formed separately from said plate and providedwith a shank c' which passes through said plate into the window frameand aids in securing said plate to said frame, and said plate is alsosecured to said frame by screws 0" or in any desired manner. I alsoprovide an arm (Z, the end (1 of which is adapted to enter the keeper0*, and the bolt 1) passes through said keeper and through said arm asclearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and said arm is free to swing in avertical plane.

In Fig. 1. the arm (Z is shown, in full lines, as extending inwardlythrough the window frame and into the room or compartment inwardly ofsaid frame, and said. arm is also shown suspended from the bolt 7) indotted lines. Pivotally connected with the arm (1, or with a plate asecured thereto is a bracef which is adapted to be pivotally connectedwith the inner face of the window frame, or with a plate 9 securedthereto by means of a pin, screw, bolt or similar device It, and the arm(Z is also provided at its free end with a pulley i, and pivotallyconnected with the inner face of the window frame at i is a hook 7.:which is adapted to engage the arm (Z when the latter is in the positionshown in Fig. l and to hold said arm against lateral or horizontalmovement. I have also shown at m an endless clothes line which, inpractice, is passed around the pulley i and around another pullcy, notshown, but supported at a predetermined distance from the window in theusual manner.

In practice, when the line is not in use, the arm swings from the pivotbolt or pin 1) as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. v i hen it is desiredto put clothes on the line, the arm (Z is swung into the position shownin Fig. 1 and secured therein by means of the bracef and hook 7c and theline m is detached from the hookc. 'l he garments or other articles tobe dried are then placed on the line in the usual manner, in whichoperation the line m may be drawn around the pull y, and said operationmay be performed without the oporator leaning out of or from the window.

After the garments or other articles are suspended from the line bothparts of said line are connected with the hook c as shown in Fig. 1, andsaid arm may be lowered. into the position shown in dotted lines in saidligure, and in practice, I also provide a strap or other device n forsecuring the arm in this position, said strap or other device beingsecured to the window frame.

It will be understood that myimproved clothes line holder is attached tothe window frame below the top sash in the usual manner, and in themanipulation of said holder the lower sash must be raised. In removingthe garments or other articles from the line the arm cl is again swunginto the position shown in Fig. 1, the line m is detached from the hookc and the said garments or other articles are removed from the line inthe usual manner.

Having fully described my invention, What I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

A clothes line holder of the class described comprising a plate adaptedto be secured to the outer face of a window frame and provided with athreaded belt which projects inwardly transversely of the frame, anotherplate adapted to be secured to the window frame inwardly of the firstnamedplate and facing at right anglesthereto and provided with a hookand with a horizontal keeper which is yoke-shaped in cross section and.

opens downwardly and which extends outwardly and through the outer endportion of which said bolt is passed, an arm pivoted on said bolt andadapted to swing in a vertical plane and to be raised into saidkeeper,and a brace pivoted to said arm and adapted to be connected with theinner face of the Window frame, said arm being also provided at its freeend with a pulley.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 14th day of September1908.

RICHARD KUMMER.

Witnesses A. It. APPLEMAN, O. E. MULREANY.

